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I have to clarify something about Twitter.  I said I’d follow people who follow me.  It didn’t occur to me at the time to moderate that. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would send a bunch of inappropriate tweets.  Sadly, I was being naieve.

So let me be clear, I will generally follow anyone who follow me unless their tweets are mostly advertising, or their tweets are generally offensive or vulgar. The same thing goes for Facebook. Why?  Well, tweets that are mainly ads are annoying to scroll past, not to mention boring. And  I feel that offensiveness and vulgarity are inappropriate in those venues. Your tweets, as someone I follow, come up in my timeline on Twitter,  and my Facebook Wall if you make a comment to me on Facebook.  I aim to have my Twitter timeline and Facebook both generally PG rated and not all about advertising. I had to remove someone yesterday because they didn’t fit in with that aim.  It made me feel sad, but I  have to stick with my aims even if it makes me feel sad sometimes.

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A friend on Facebook asked to see some of my mandalas, since I said I’d gotten new pens for them and will be doing more.  So Mo, here are a few of them that I did years ago.  There will be more coming up soon.

I do these non-traditional or traditional mandalas with intent and prayer, so they’re magical.  Many are hand-drawn using various pens, markers, and Primacolors.  Others are done digitally with Photoshop. Lovely to do.  Hopefully lovely to see and feel too.

Unity - A blessing for a couple

Fishing Is Fun - A good luck mandala for fishing

Digital mandala for blessings for a friend

Whatcha think?

Oh, and by the way, all the news and blogging will be over here now. Less confusing that way

This week’s newsletter!

Hiya! I do believe I’m on the ball this week. There’s new goodies and the sale runs through Sunday night. And I have other fun stuff for you here. All good. And I’m well enough to have my knee surgery finally! Keep your fingers crossed for me. I’m trying to get in next week, but I don’t know yet if that will work. If not, it will be sooner rather than later at least. I am SO ready to get this knee fixed and healed up. All good mojo, positive energy, and prayers to get this done and over with are gratefully accepted! If I do have my knee surgery next week, Chuck will be helping with my end of things until I’m back on my feet a couple of days after. Well, he’ll do that whenever I can have the surgery, actually. So things will just keep rolling along pretty much as usual, whenever it happens. I’ll post on the news blog when I do find out exactly when I can have it. SALE Ends midnight 3/29/09 Don’t Miss It! In honor of the 108 Names of Lord Ganesha, CrystalsAndJewelry.com is having a 10.8% off storewide sale on jewelry, crystals, stones! For details, stop by here.or just head over to the site. The shopping cart will show you the price after discount (and what the heck, if you hate that price after discount, just remove the item from the cart). Then save a bunch in celebration The sale runs through the end of March 29, 2009. A Favorite Quote High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~ Charles Kettering New Goodies! CRYSTALS & GEMSTONES JEWELRY Since the last time I emailed, there’s new Jewelry. There are always treasures of jools and yes, there are new ones. From simple to fancy, there is new Jewelry by color including this stunning Quantum piece. Quantum cabs are rare as hen’s teeth sadly, so I was just tickled to get this one. There’s also more Jewelry by Stone like this unusual one of a kind piece with green zincite and rubellite. CRYSTALS and STONES Since I last wrote, New Crystals and Stones Goodies have become available. Yum! There are also new specialty Individual Quartz Crystals including this awesome color Aqua Aura quartz. There is new tumbled Unakite. We haven’t had any for ages, but we finally got hold of some. Yay! New Dichroic cabs are available too. Rainbows! And of course there are always Unique Specimens and Rare/Limited/Specialty stones. Metaphysical Goodies Yes, there is a LOT to see on the metaphysical side. I’ve set up a new area with all the metaphysical info and articles. Eventually everything will move over to that area, but for the moment, it’s the cool mystical stuff. As a reader of my newsletter or news blog, or a Twitter bud, you get to see it! There’s also a new article About Stone Names over there, which I haven’t put anywhere else. Oh yes, everything is moving. It just takes a bit to make happen when your site is 1500 pages or so. hehe INTERESTING LINK Chuck turned me on to the world of free online TV and movies. Wow! Most everything is out there somewhere. Here are a couple of places to check out if you’re interested: FanCast, and Hulu.com. Tweet Tweet Yes, I’ve gotten on the Twitter bandwagon. You can follow along here if you want. It’s slightly creepy they call it following, but it’s cool. If you follow me, I’ll follow you.* I always like to hear what folks are up to! *Assuming your tweets aren’t all about ads or often vulgar Don’t forget the sale ends Sunday night. Have a super weekend. Many Blessings! CrystalsAndJewelry.com

There are new colored and specialty quartz crystals on the individual quartz crystals page.  Yummy yummy! As you might guess, I’m particularly crazy about this Aqua Aura crystal.  Excellent psychic awareness energy!

New Jools alert!  Yes, I’ve put new jewelry up on the site even though it’s sale time. Color me not willing to wait. hehe  There’s jewelry with Quantum Quattro Silica like that gorgeous piece on the left. (How rare are Quantum cabs? Think hen’s teeth!) And there’s a hand mala with Melody’s stone and Yttrian Fluorite and others.  You can find jools by color or jools by stone, whichever you prefer for finding new goodies to look at.

I’d also like to give a big thank you to the folks who have been previewing my new metaphysical section.  You folks have found a couple of typos on my part and that’s a huge help! Thanks!

Did I mention that there’s also a new article over there? I don’t think I did, but even if I did, it’s no crime to mention it again. I hope! hehe Here you go:  About Stone Names.  Enjoy

Last but not least… Happy Birthday to my brother Roman!  Only brother I’ve got and a good guy to boot.  Yay!